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An offline encyclopedia of the world's faiths: traditions, texts, holy sites.
A calm, complete reference to the world's religions that works with the network switched off. Everything — the articles, the family trees, the world map, the search index — is built into the app. Open it on a plane, on the underground, or on a mountain, and it reads exactly the same. WHAT IS INSIDE • 13 traditions, from Christianity, Islam and Judaism to Sikhism, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism and African traditional religion • 41 branches and denominations, each with its own page • 23 scriptures, with what they are and where they came from • 30 figures — founders, prophets, teachers and reformers • 44 holy sites: birthplaces, pilgrimage cities and sacred ground BROWSE BY FAMILY Traditions are grouped the way historians group them — Abrahamic, Indian, East Asian and others — so you can see at a glance which faiths grew from the same root. FOLLOW THE FAMILY TREE One screen shows how the branches split: Christianity into Catholicism, Orthodoxy and the Protestant churches; Buddhism into Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana; and so on down to the denominations, with the century each one began. COMPARE, SIDE BY SIDE Put up to three traditions in one table and read their view of God, of scripture, of what happens after death, and of how a follower is meant to live — the same questions asked of each, so the answers can actually be compared. A MAP THAT NEEDS NO CONNECTION Every holy site is placed on a vector map of the world drawn inside the app: no tiles, no downloads, no tracking. Pinch to zoom, filter by tradition, and tap a place to read about it. Tap its coordinates and — if you want to — open the same spot in Google Maps. SEARCH THAT FORGIVES Type a few letters and results narrow as you go. Partial words work, misspellings are corrected, and Korean can be searched by initial consonants alone. FIVE LANGUAGES, ALL THE WAY DOWN English, Korean, French, German and Spanish — not just the menus, but every article, every description and every place name. A fresh install follows your phone's language and falls back to English; you can change it any time in Settings. BUILT TO BE EASY ON THE EYES A quiet, warm palette in light or dark, four text sizes, and a home screen where everything is one tap away. No account. No sign-up. No profile. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It keeps no record of what you read or search for, and it holds no personal data. The only thing that uses the network is the small banner at the foot of the home screen, which is what keeps the app free. Where the law requires it, you are asked before any ad is requested, and you can change that answer at any time in Settings. Privacy policy: http://dodolondon.com/app/privacy/Worldreligions.html ABOUT THE CONTENT The descriptions summarise the mainstream account of each tradition, as an encyclopedia would. They do not speak for any denomination or represent any official position, and follower counts are rounded estimates drawn from published surveys. Map outlines come from Natural Earth (public domain).